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The film depicts village fishermen in East Bengal as they struggle with hunger and exploitation by money lenders. Jago Hua Savera FRIDAY, March 3rd 2016 7-9pm, Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302), UT Austin campus The screening is Free & Open to Public. SYNOPSIS Indie Meme is co-sponsoring a film at the South Asian Institute UT - A.J. Kardar’s Jago Hua Sawera (The Day Shall Dawn, 1959). It is the first time we are digressing from the path of contemporary south asian cinema but are very excited to partner with SAI on this classic film. The film depicts village fishermen in East Bengal as they struggle with hunger and exploitation by money lenders. With a screenplay by Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz based on a short story by Bengali writer Manik Bandhopadhyay, lead actress Tripti Mitra from India, and German-born British cameraman Walter Lasally, the film’s production was truly an international undertaking. Jago Hua Sawera is considered a classic in avant garde and neo-realist Pakistani cinema. Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University, will discuss the film after the screening

2022 What Are You Searching? Short Hindi, English mins 35 Virtual 2022 India Family, Drama Tickets 4/28/23, 5:00 PM Free with IMFF Badge Director Princy Pal Princy Pal is filmmaker based out of Delhi. She is an alumnus of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, 2019, where she completed a postgraduate degree in cinema, specializing in direction and screenwriting. Pal's is deeply interested in exploring film as a medium of narrative, non-narrative, imagery, sound, and vision that can transcend the world of the audience's experience. Pal also has hobbies in photography, creative writing, and music. Director: Princy Pal Producer: Writer: Princy Pal Cast: Indira Tiwari, Shabnam Thakur, Jaivanti Devi Editor: Crew: This Event is supported in part by a Mini Grant from Humanities Texas. Community Partners for the Film More Films

2020 Indie Meme Film Festival - Lineup and Films Schedule NOTE: Schedule is subject to change. Screenings may only be available in Texas region. Screenings only available to view at the times shown ( All dates and times given are in CDT - USA ) Weekend 1 FRIDAY May 1st KICK-OFF NIGHT for Virtual IMFF 2020 7:00 pm - 7.30pm Pre Screening and Film Set-up 7:30 - 8:30 pm Aunty Sudha Aunty Radha Screening (INDIA | Documentary | 58 mins | Hindi) 8:30 - 9:00 pm Q&A with Film-maker Tanuja Chandra and Producer Anupama Mandloi SATURDAY May 2nd OPENING NIGHT for Virtual IMFF 2020 6.30 - 6:40 pm Pre Screening and Film Set-up 6:40 - 8:40 pm Tale of Rising Rani Screening (INDIA | Fiction | Drama | 2019 | 122 MIN. |Hindi; English Subtitles) 8:45 - 9:20 pm Q&A with Film-maker Prakash Saini 9:45 - 9:55 pm Pre-screen and Set-up for Shorts on Zoom 9:55 - 10:45 pm Shorts Program I Glitch (India | 13m 54s | Hindi, English) Maya (India | 19m | Hindi, English) Bouma (India | 14m 27s | Bengali) 10:50 - 11:10 pm Audience Discussion SUNDAY May 3rd WEEKEND 1 WRAP for Virtual IMFF 2020 7:00 - 7:10 pm Pre Screening and Film Set-up on Zoom 7:10 - 8:40 pm The Orphanage Screening (Afghanistan & Denmark |Fiction-Drama | 2019 |90 min| Dari, Russian, Hindi; English subtitles) 8:45 - 9:20 pm Recorded Q&A with Film-maker Shahrbanoo Sadat and Audience Discussion Weekend 2 FRIDAY May 8th WEEKEND 2 Kick-Off for Virtual IMFF 2020 6:30 - 6:40pm Pre Screening and film Set-up 6:45 - 7:30 pm Coral Woman Screening (India | Documentary | 52 min | English, Tamil) 7:50 - 8:20 pm Q&A with Film-maker Priya Thuvassery 9:00 - 9:10 pm Pre-Screen and Film Setup 9:10 - 9:50 pm Shorts Program II Forbidden Tikka Masala (Canada | 15m | Hindi, English) The Timekeeper (India | 5m | Marathi) Kathakaar (Pakistan | 15m 5s| Urdu) 9:55 - 10:15 pm Audience Discussion SATURDAY May 9th DAY 5 for Virtual IMFF 2020 6:30 - 6:40 pm Pre Screening and Film Set-up 6:40 - 7:35 pm Shorts Program III The Booth (India | 14m 58s | Hindi) Cobalt Blue (Burma | 27m | Burmese) Meal (India | 11m 10s | Bengali) 7:40 - 7:55 pm Audience Discussion 8:30 - 8:40 pm Pre Screening and Film Set-up 8:45 - 10:40 pm Aamis Screening (India | Fiction | Drama, Horror | 2019 |108 min| Assamese; English subtitles) 10:45 - 11:30 pm Q&A with Film-maker Bhaskar Hazarika SUNDAY May 10th CLOSING NIGHT for Virtual IMFF 2020 6:30 - 6:40 pm Pre Screening and Film Set-up on Zoom 6:45 - 8:30 pm Eeb Allay Ooo! Screening (India | Fiction | Drama, Comedy |2019 |98 min| Hindi; English subtitles) 8:40 - 9:15 pm Q&A with Film-maker Prateek Vats and Audience Discussion 9:30 - 10:00 pm Guest Introductions and a Special Stand-up Act by Host Rajiv Satyal 10:00 - 10:25 pm Jury Award Announcements & Speeches from Winners 10:25 - 10:35 pm Closing Ceremony Closing Night Details

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Indie Meme has over a decade of history, and in a partnership with Austin History Center, we are collating our physical and digital archives. Indie Meme Archival Project Preserving the culture and history of Indie Meme The Indie Meme Archival Project is a collaboration between Indie Meme and the Austin History Center . Indie Meme received a generous Heritage Preservation grant from the City of Austin to launch the initiative in 2023 . The project chronicles the story of the festival and the community around it through physical and digital materials, oral history interviews , & more. The materials will be stored in a permanent public collection at the Austin History Center. They include the voices of filmmakers, documentarians, programmers, & volunteers whose efforts have made an impact on the cinematic landscape of Texas & the world. The archival project will be used to promote tourism and engagement with Indie Meme, Austin History Center, and the City of Austin. “It was something that had never been done before because there was no theater that was screening independent South Asian film (in Dallas). So I think getting people into the theater since the filmmaker was also present honestly was the biggest focus. And the film itself was so excellent that people had to come watch it. ”- Tripti Bhatnagar, Co-Founder, Indie Meme & IMFF 00:00 / 00:36 “I’ve pretty much done the gamut - I’ve been a clicker counting the audience, I’ve collected tickets, I have shown people into dark movie halls. Over time I began to get more involved in the administrative back end... I gained a lot of insight into how film festivals are run and I enjoyed it thoroughly” - Ramdas Menon, Indie Meme volunteer, board member, & programming team 00:00 / 00:53 “Independent films, they talk about a particular culture, a particular language, the problems faced - so they have a unique voice. They are not bound to follow the typical filmmaking process. There are so many stories to tell - in every region, every small town - and mainstream cinema never picks up those stories." - Jayant Somalkar, filmmaker, director of Shthal - A Match (IMFF 2024 - Best Narrative Feature) 00:00 / 00:37 “My first year with Indie Meme was as a member and a guest in 2016. I started out as an intern in 2022. At the time, I was in my senior year of college and was looking to get into doing something with film. Being from a South Asian background it was a perfect fit for me - and this year in I’m a part of the programming team for the festival."- Uma Riddle, film programmer, volunteer, archival project manager 00:00 / 00:42 “They are a gathering point both for filmmakers as well as audiences to get films that are not necessarily in the mainstream… and that is a very important task.” - Anand Patwardhan, National Award winning filmmaker, director of The World is Family (IMFF 2024 - Audience Award - Best Documentary Feature) 00:00 / 00:33 “It is a non-profit organization so the money raised is well spent on the projects that they undertake. I would encourage people to get involved - it's truly a community driven organization and that spirit should be supported. ." - Alok Bhanot, donor, mind behind the "Indie Meme" name 00:00 / 00:29 This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

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A young girl in Mumbai IN THEATERS: Shorts Program 2 April 17th, 2022 AFS Cinema WATCH ONLINE: April 22-25th, 2022 Eventive Mono No Aware India I 20 mins I Coming of Age, I 2021 I Hindi w/ English subtitles BUY & WATCH ONLINE Poorna, a 10-year-old girl in suburban Mumbai, wakes up to her routine morning and a sense that something in her home has changed and shifted.. As the day progresses with a school outing, she visits an old hill and an old age home. She becomes absorbed in ‘Mono no Aware’ - a Buddhist word for ‘watching the passing’, as she discovers the bittersweet circus of life - the ephemeral nature of all things bad or beautiful. This film plays with SHORTS PROGRAM 2 , in theaters and with the BEYOND THE END OF THE WORLD program online. NOTE: This film is coming to theaters and our virtual cinema. WATCH IN THEATERS Back to Film Program About the Artist Koushik grew up in Krishnanagar, a historic small town at the border of two Bengals. He studied photography and then film direction at National Institute of Design, a school set up by legendary Charles and Ray Eames in Ahmedabad, India. An apprenticeship at the World Wide Video Centre, The Netherlands, exposed Koushik to the video art scene of the late nineties. The experience of working with many pioneering artists laid the foundation for his expression. Back home, he made documentaries that were shown at international festivals including ‘FLYING IN A BLUE DREAM’ a film on ‘guitar God’ Joe Satriani, which was published worldwide by Sony BMG & Epic Records. He started APOPSTROPHE, one of India's most reputed companies for advertising & commercials, in 2007. The company has produced commercials for Gillette, Amazon, Dell, Livon, and many more. KALI Collective, a content development company, is his new venture focusing mainly on narrative projects. Trailer

Set‐up on a pre‐arranged date by their old‐fashioned Indian parents, Ravi and Rita seemingly have nothing in common. The situation turns both awkward and enlightening when they find themselves trapped inside together for a week. All Upcoming Events GET TICKETS Rehana, an assistant professor at a medical college, struggles to keep the harmony between work and family, as she has to play all the complex roles of a teacher, doctor, sister, daughter, and mother. One evening, she witnesses a student storming out of a professor’s office, crying. Deeply impacted, Rehana becomes dedicated to pursuing consequences for the perpetrator. She enters a maelstrom of controversy as she confronts aspects of her university, society, and herself that previously lay dormant. Azmeri Haque Badhon earned international acclaim for her resolute and electric central performance, including 'Best Actress' at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. + BAMBIRAK (short film) (Germany, US I German, Dari I 14 mins I dir. Zamarin Wahdat) When 8-year-old Kati stows away in her father's delivery van, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a dad while holding down his first job in a new country. Rehana Bangladesh I 107 mins I Drama, Thriller I 2021 Bengali w/ English subtitles About the Artist Born 1985 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Abdullah Mohammad Saad graduated with a degree in education and research from the University of Dhaka. Live from Dhaka, his first feature film, was selected at Rotterdam and won the Silver Screen Award for Best Director at the Singapore International Film Festival. His second film, Rehana, was the first film from Bangladesh to be featured in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, won the 'Jury Grand Prize' and 'Best Performance by an Actress' Awards at the Asia Pacific Film Awards, and became Bangladesh's Official 2021 Oscar Submission. Trailer Credits Crew Writer/Director: ABDULLAH MOHAMMAD SAAD Producer(s): JEREMY CHUA EHSANUL HAQUE BABU Cinematographer: TUHIN TAMIJUL

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Time & Location April 22, 2024 at 6:00:00 PM We Luv Video | 100 N Loop Blvd E Unit A, Austin, TX 78751, USA About the Event Explore the craft of acting through our engaging class with the International multi-award winning artist Adil Hussain! You will get the opportunity to go over scenes and characters and ask all the questions you wish a successful versatile actor to address. Whether you’re intrigued by the art of acting or aiming to boost your skills, this enjoyable and accessible course is designed for you. Ideal for the total beginner who is either casually curious, a huge fan of the teacher or an aspiring novice actor who envisions a profession in acting. About the Artist Adil Hussain's vast experience, spans over 10 years of theater across Europe, Africa, and India, and he has over 80 films under his belt! He has won numerous awards including 5 Best Actor awards. Credits include Ang Lee's Oscar winning 'Life of Pi', Subhashish Bhutiani's 'Hotel Salvation/Mukti Bhavan', Iram Haq's 'What Will People Say', Prakash Jha's 'Pareeksha', Gautam Ghosh's 'The Wayfarer', Danis Tanovic's 'Tigers', Mira Nair's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', Pan Nalin's 'Angry Indian Goddesses', Partho Sen-Gupta's 'Sunrise', Italo Spinelli's 'Gangor', Prashant Nair's 'Umrika', Leena Yadav's 'Parched' and Bauddhayan Mukherji's 'The Violin Player' . Hussain has been the artistic director and trainer of the Society for Artists and Performers in Hampi, and a visiting faculty at Royal Conservatory of Performing Arts, The Hague. He is also a visiting faculty at his alma mater, the National School of Drama. IM Master Class Series: Acting Workshop with Adil Hussain Explore the craft of acting through our engaging class with the International multi-award winning artist Adil Hussain!

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